Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

LATITAT

LATA OULPA

LATH, LATHE. The name of an an cient civil division in England, intermediate between the county or shire and the hundred. Said to be the same as what, in other parts of the kingdom, was termed a "rape." 1 Bl. Conim. 116; Cowell; Spelman. LATHREVE. An officer under the Sax on government, who had authority over a lathe. Cowell; 1 Bl. Comm. 116. LATIFUNDIUM. In the civil law. Great or large possessions; a great or large field; a common. A great estate made up of smaller ones, (fundis,) which began to be common in the latter times of the empire. LATIFUNDUS. A possessor of a large estate made up of smaller ones. Du Cange. LATIMEB. A word used by Lord Coke in the sense of an interpreter. 2 Inst. 515. Supposed to be a corruption of the French "latinier," or "Miner." Cowell; Blount. LATIN. The language of the ancient Romans. There are three sorts of law Latin: (1) Good Latin, allowed by the grammarians and lawyers; (2) false or incongruous Latin, which in times past would abate original writs, though it would not make void any judicial writ, declaration, or plea, etc.; (3) words of art, known only to the sages of the law, and not to grammarians, called "Law yers' Latin." Wharton. LATINABIUS. An interpreter of Latin. LATINI JUNIANI. Lat. In Roman law. A class of freedmen (libertini) interme diate between the two other classes of freed men called, respectively," CivesRomani" and 44 Dediticii." Slaves under thirty years of age at the date of their manumission, or man umitted otherwise than by vindicta, census, or testamentum, or not the quiritary prop erty of their manumissors at the time of manumission, were called "Latini." By reason of one or other of these three defects, they remained slaves by strict law even after their manumission, but were protected in their liberties first by equity, and eventually by the Lex Junta Norbana, A. D. 19, from which law they took the name of "Juniani" in addition to that of "Latini." Brown. LATITAT. In old English practice. A writ which issued in personal actions, on the return of non est inventus to a bill of Mid dlesex; so called from the emphatic word in its recital, in which it was "testified that the defendant lurks [latitaf] and wanders about"

LATA CT7LPA. Lat. In the law of bailment. Gross fault or neglect; extreme negligence or carelessness, (nimia negligen tia.) Dig. 50, 16, 213, 2. Lata oolpa dolo roquiparatur. Oross negligence is equivalent to fraud. LATCHING. An under-ground survey. LATE. Defunct; existing recently, but now dead. 17 Ala. 190. Formerly; recent ly; lately. **LATELY." This word has been held to have "a very large retrospect, as we say « lately deceased' of one dead ten or twenty years." Per Cur. 2 Show. 294. LATENS. Lat. Latent; hidden; not ap parent. See AMBIOUITAS. LATENT. Hidden; concealed; that does not appear upon the face of a thing. LATENT AMBIGUITY. An ambigui ty which arises not upon the words of the will, deed, or other instrument, as looked at in themselves, but upon those words when applied to the object or to the subject which they describe. The term is opposed to the phrase "patent ambiguity." The rule of law is that extrinsic or parol evidence is ad missible in all cases to remove a latent am biguity, but in no case to remove a patent one. Brown. LATENT DEED. A deed kept for twen ty years or more in a man's scrutoire or strong-box. 7 N. J. Law, 177. LATENT DEFECT. A defect In an article sold, which is known to the seller, but not to the purchaser, and is not discover able by mere observation. See 21 ST. Y. 552. LATEBA. In old records. Sidesmen; companions; assistants. Cowell. L A T E B A L RAILROAD. A lateral road is one which proceeds from some point on the main trunk between its termini; it is but another name for a branch road, both be ing a part of the main road. 14 111. 273. LATERAL SUPPOBT. The right of lateral and subjacent support is that right which the owner of land has to have his land supported by the adjoining land or the soil beneath. 27 Orat. 77; 19 Barb. 380; 2 AMen, 131; 12 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 933. LATEBABE. To He sideways, in opposi tion to lying endways; used in descriptions of lands. AM.DIOT.LAW—44

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